O. Z. Whitehead
Age: N/A | From: New York City, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead , Zebby
Gender: Male
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Movie Involvements: 18
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company. Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in the 1930s. He played a wide variety of character parts, often quite different from his own actual age and type. He is probably most familiar as Al Joad in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). But twenty-two years later, in his fifth film for Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Whitehead at 51 was playing a lollipop-licking schoolboy! He continued to work predominantly on the stage, appearing now and again in films or on television. In his last years, he suffered from cancer and died in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, where he had lived in semi-retirement for many years.
Most Famous Work
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962) Herbert Carruthers
The Grapes of Wrath
(1940) Al Joad
The Lion in Winter
(1968) Bishop of Durham
The Horse Soldiers
(1959) Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
Two Rode Together
(1961) Lt. Whitehead
Panic in Year Zero!
(1962) Hogan
The Last Hurrah
(1958) Norman Cass Jr.
The Scarf
(1951) WhoopieActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Bishop of Durham | |
| 1963 | Mr. Perkins | |
| 1962 | Hogan | |
| Herbert Carruthers | ||
| 1961 | N/A | |
| Lt. Whitehead | ||
| 1959 | Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins | |
| 1958 | Norman Cass Jr. | |
| Isaac Goodpasture | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1957 | N/A | |
| 1955 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1953 | Oscar Blunt | |
| 1952 | N/A | |
| Mr. Franks | ||
| Alfey | ||
| N/A | ||
| Prof. Bixby | ||
| 1951 | Chauncey | |
| Lippy | ||
| Zeke | ||
| Breckenridge | ||
| Whoopie | ||
| 1950 | Gas Station Proprietor (uncredited) | |
| 1949 | Mr. Billings | |
| N/A | ||
| 1948 | N/A | |
| Professor Oddly | ||
| Arthur | ||
| 1947 | Ninny Nat | |
| Mr. Puddy | ||
| 1940 | Al Joad | |
| 1935 | Calhoun | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
